Thursday, March 27, 2008

The Next Step

So, now I've officially talked to both of my parents about potentially living with Adam in the city. They've both expressed misgivings, which I can't blame them for, mostly along the lines of, "But what if something happens? That would be so painful... Living with someone is NOT visiting someone a lot" etc. etc. But, once I explained to them the financial pluses (we would pay based on salary, and his is a WHOLE lot more than mine), the protection pluses (better to live with a guy than with a girl... this one my mom came up with), the experience pluses (he's already looked for apartments in the city and knows basic quality vs. rent thing) and of course I'm sort of not going to mention the goodness of living with him, they agreed with me in the end that it's probably a good idea.
So!
The next step.
Figure out what the set-up is going to be. If possible, we might want to live with one of his apartment-mates now, Jared, and potentially his girlfriend. That would make 4, and we'd just need a 2 bedroom, 2 bath which are really common. That would split up the rent quite nicely and it would be nice to have other people around, too. Only semi-problem is, we don't know if Jared wants to live with his girlfriend, or even with Adam again for that matter (I'm sure he does, but he may have other plans that negate that possibility). He definitely won't want to just live with me and Adam, that's third wheel to the max. So it's going to be slightly awkward asking him if he would want to live with his girlfriend, but we must do it to figure out what's happening. And then... apartment hunting in the city! I'm so excited!

Monday, March 17, 2008

A rollercoaster ride that only goes up!

1) Got a full time job at NYU medical center
2) Got into NYU biology master's program
3) Found out that working for NYU gets me 100% tuition remission
4) Found out that if the classes are relevant to the job, the tuition checks above 5K are non-taxable
5) Parents are warming up to me possibly living with Adam
6) Adam is already looking for apartments
7) I snagged 6 more hours of work this week
8) Dad quit his job to get rid of the stupid coworkers
9) Dad accepted an awesome position way higher than his other one
10) Mom bought a new car after talking about it for 5 years
11) Had an amazing spring break with Jen and Danielle
12) Am totally tan right now
13) Adam is coming up this weekend
13a) I don't have to go on the bus for 10 hours roundtrip
13b) Adam finally gets to see my room, meet my roommates
13c) Adam might get to chill with me in the lab and see what I actually do
14) My junior lab student is amazing and really fun to teach
15) I made Dean's List last semester!!
16) Graduation is in 61 days...!!